July 26, 2021 Guard Your Digital Rolodex Your phone number is arguably as strong a personal identifier as your social security number, passport number or email address. These are things we…
July 19, 2021 It’s Time to Drop the SBOM The first step to solving any problem is gathering as much information as you can. Unfortunately, today we’re basically flying blind when it comes…
July 5, 2021 Make That Shaken AND Stirred Robocalls are the bane of my existence. I get so many spam calls that I’ve just stopped answering my home phone altogether. I’ve given…
June 28, 2021 Sad State of Cybersecurity Today’s news headlines are littered with stories on massive cybersecurity failures: SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange, Colonial Pipeline, data breaches, ransomware… Are the bad guys ramping…
June 21, 2021 Hacking Satellites for Fun & Profit Are satellites really just IoT devices in space? They’re small computers and connected to the internet, not unlike Nest thermostats, baby video monitors, and…
March 29, 2021 Stop Using SMS for 2FA Passwords suck and humans aren’t good at using them. Password managers can help a lot, but to truly improve your account security these days,…
March 22, 2021 Computers Interviewing Humans (Part 2) Given that we’re using computer algorithms to evaluate humans, can these systems be gamed or fooled? And is it possible that computers are less…
March 1, 2021 Tech Learning Collective (Part 2) In the second half of my interview with the Tech Learning Collective, we delve into their course curriculum a bit, and then discuss why…
February 22, 2021 Tech Learning Collective (Part 1) I first learned of the Tech Learning Collective at a privacy conference in late 2020. I struck up a conversation with one of its…
February 15, 2021 Not Just a Face in the Crowd Ep207. Clearview AI – the company that has hoovered up every face it can find on the internet to create a creepy person identifying…
